Yes, the dismissed Channel 17 news reporter made an ugly and definite nuisance of herself while speaking to a Philadelphia policeman and a person I take to be a manager of Helium, the Center City comedy club Campbell was asked to leave, last Sunday.

She was rude, she was out of control, and she escalated her situation by just not accepting her plight and heading from Sansom Street in a huff.

She was also angry, which is understandable and a reason to give her some slack.

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She also acted entitled because of her position in a TV newsroom, the most minor of all local newsrooms, which was her professional downfall.

I made my judgment about the criminality of Campbell’s actions after watching the video a comedian, Wil Sylvince, took of the incident.

About the worst thing Campbell did was aim spit, which missed its target, at what appears to be the Helium bouncer who ousted her.

This is stupid, but it is temperament rather than assault. It is hardly a reason to lodge an assault charge, a criminal charge, as has happened.

Nor did Campbell physically assault the officer who arrested her.

She yelled at him. She called him a piece of excrement, using the more common word for such material. But her behavior never went past disrespectful behavior and verbal abuse.

That’s “abuse,” not “assault.” A person in authority, especially a police officer, has to expect and accept that people, already upset and threatened with arrest, may have a tantrum or react badly, rather than calmly or cooperatively, to the situation.

The police officer praised for his patience, exercised a lot of it. He acted admirably for the most part. Yet he admits to wanting to find a reason to arrest her from the start of his encounter with her.

This is not patience in terms of dealing with an agitated person. This is patience in terms of waiting for the cue to go in for the kill.

Campbell was wrong. She has a lot to explain. And she deserves to lose her post at Channel 17. She doesn’t rate arrest, legal fees, or, heaven forbid, time in jail beyond her hours at the Roundhouse for an act that is more pique than menace.

No one was hurt. It was a bit of dramatic hysteria, more unfortunate than felonious.

Called as a witness, I’d testify in Campbell’s defense against any criminal charge, The policeman overreacted as much as Campbell did. Just not as frantically.

I said before Campbell was wrong. I see more than 250 shows a year, and to me, the rule is when the lights go down, the mouths, and anything else that makes noise, get shut.

Comedy clubs are a little different. They invite give and take. Heckling is part of the game. Performers often invite audiences to respond, and an errant line from the house is at time welcome, often spurring the comic to some ad lib wit of the kind I saw from Maher way back when.

Campbell was, accordingly to reports from Sylvince (heard with Rich Zeoli on WPHT–1210 AM) and others, not going along with the performer’s flow. She was not, as she says, laughing at the comic on stage, Craig Robinson. She was barely paying attention to him. Sylvince told Zeoli she was whispering, but loudly and constantly. She was disturbing Robinson’s show.

Now Robinson is not some lightweight comedian. He is a headliner. He played Darryl on NBC’s “The Office.” He’s made a dozen movies. You don’t ignore a performer like Robinson. You listen to him.

Campbell wasn’t doing this. Sylvince says Helium personnel came to Campbell’s table as many as five times to hush her or ask her to get her voice down.

She resisted such suggestion. Rather than being abashed, apologetic, or cooperative, she became belligerent. Management had to ask her to leave. Naturally, Campbell was insulted. She’s a TV reporter, after all. She’s entitled. Why, to a dozen viewers, she may be as famous at Craig Robinson.

The real matter comes to be $70 she’s shelled out for tickets and refreshments. She says more than once she wants her $70, and she’ll go.

This is Helium’s one mistake, not refunding the $70. Even to see if it would diffuse Campbell’s tirade. The money is a logical expense and could end a disastrous incident.

No gesture was made towards refund.

So the mayhem continues.

Once she was out of the club and the Helium folks back inside, where they did not have the wisdom to go, Campbell should have been left on Sansom Street to rave, the officer at best blocking the door to prevent her re-entrance. The officer would have taken verbal abuse, but the affair would soon end.

Now, instead of losing only $70, Campbell will spend more in legal fees and court costs. All unnecessarily.

Sad in some ways. But in more ways, in keeping with Helium’s purpose, comic.

Dark comic.

See ‘Patsy’ sing

“Always … Patsy Cline,” the show appearing at the Media Theatre through July 2, is a two-hander. One actress plays Patsy Cline while another plays Louise, a Texas woman Ms. Cline befriended after meeting her at a concert and accepting her invitation to come home for some ham and eggs.

The Media has Patsy and Louise together, but Patsy will be performed by actress Jenny Lee Stern, who has made big impressions locally and in New York in several shows, one of them being “Always … Patsy Cline” at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre in 2016, while Louise is portrayed by a rotating group of women, three of whom come from local broadcasting.

This means Louise, a complex character, will be played by well-known television and radio personalities working script-in-hand.

That could be scary and less than “Always … Patsy Cline” merits if the Media had not made wise choices and engaged some of the more expressive and appealing broadcasters in town. One night, Louise will be played by a professional actress, one of the best and most versatile in the business, Hedgerow’s Susan Wefel.

That will be on Thursday, June 29. For the rest of the three-week run, WMGK (102.9 FM) Debbi Calton, Channel 29’s Sue Serio, and QVC’s shoe mayven Jane Treacy, will be tooling Louise’s car through Ted Swindley’s funny and touchingly human script. Serio has performed previously at the Media, opposite hubby Bill Vargus in A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” which is written to be read.

Calton leads off Stern’s co-stars, appearing Thursday through Sunday of this week. Delco resident Serio follows from June 22 to 25 while Treacy takes over from June 30 to July 2.

Louise needs to sing with Patsy towards the end of the show. I know Serio can warble with authority. She often does so at the “Good Day Philadelphia” weather map. Wefel, too, has a way with a song. Now Calton and Treacy get their vocal mettle tested. And in a theater where the singing is always supreme.

The Media box office can be reached at 610-891-0100 or by visiting www.mediatheatre.org.